Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-10-27

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By ELL d. AXE.
IRONTON. MISSOURI
NEWS AND NOTES
A Summary Of Important Events.
TIE report that Mexico had closed hel
ports to United States commerce on &C
count of the cholera scare is denied.
A CONVENTION of representatives Of the
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
tions of the various States met Wash
ington on the 18th.
MRS. ANNIE SAX was fined fifty dollars
by Judge White at st. Louis, on the 18th
for throwing the pancake at Mrs Cleve.
land during her visit to the St. Louis
Fair.
COUNTERFEIT postal cards have been dis.
covered at Pittsburgh, Pa, so skillfully
executed that their detection is very diff
cult. 1t is thought they emanate from
New York.
THE polics have warned the Irish news
agents against exposing papers or
placards containing any references to
meetings of suppressed branches of the
National League.
THE police of Killarney have forbidden
news vendors to place or expose placards
of United Ireland or other newspapers con-
tanning reports of meetings of proclaimed
branches of the National League.
ACCORDING to advices received from
Merv, Ayoub Kahn has assumed the direc-
tion of the insurgents in Afghanistan. IT
is also reported that Fviozkokis, the noted
chieftain, has Joined the insurgents.
THE National convention of the employ.
ing printers of the United States met on
the 18th in Chicago. About ninety dele
gates, representing the principal Eastern
and Western cities, were in attendance.
SERIOUS riots have occurred at Gibral.
ter and Malta between Irish and English
soldiers. Many of the rioters were in
jured. Several arrests have been made.
The streets are guarded by strong patrols.
In the Anarchist cases at Washington,
on the 21st, application was made to the
United States Supreme Court for a writ of
error. The court ordered printed copies of
the records in the cases to be submitted at
once.
SENATOR MCPHERSON, of New Jersey,
has published his reply to Henry Lytle's
attack on him. He denies all the allega-
tions made, and refers to his previous ex-
tended reply to similar charges as cover
ing the case.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, son of the
Prince of Wales, laid the memorial stone
at the inffrmary at Northampton on the
18th. The streets were crowded with
spectators, many of whom greeted the
speakers with groans.
THE Indian Office is informed that the
trouble on the Lower Brule Indian reser-
walton, Dakota, arising from discomfort
among a small faction who did not want
to take land in severalty, has subsidized,
and allotments are being made.
AT meeting of Socialists held at
Berne on the 18th, resol utions were adopt
ed protesting against the execution of the
condemned Anarchists of Chicago, and
declaring that If their sentence was car
ried into effect it would be judicial murder.
THE French police have arrested two
foreigners named Odann and Wolitz, who
were expelled in February for attempting
to bride chasseur to procure patterns of
new cartridges and rifles. Though liable
to six months Imprisonment, they are to
be again expelled.
THE steamship Rio de Janeiro, which
arrived at San Francisco on the 18th, from
Hong Kong, brings additional details of
the disastrous fire at Hankow, Corea. The
number of lives lost is given as one thou
sand. and the value of the property de-
stroyed as two million taels.
THE Official Gazette of Berlin states that
DIR. Mackenzie has again visited the
Crown Prince Frederick William at
Baveno and reports the patient continues
to improve. 1t has been found necessary
to compel the Crown Prince to refrain
from talking as much as possible.
THE Princesses Louise and Maude of
Wales, whose illness at Copenhagen
caused considerable anxiety in English
court circles, are progressing favorably,
and their complete recovery, without any
of the unfortunate Affections that often
result from their disease, is assured.
FRANK CREDEFoRD, also known as
Crawford, whose name has been con-
nected with the latest clew in the Railway
IN. J.) murder mystery as the tramp
Weaver, and with whom the dead girl
was said to have been married, was ar
rested in Philadelphia on the night of the
21st.
THE French steamship Britannia, which
arrived at New York on the 18th inst,
from Marseilles and Naples, and has been
held by the health officer at upper quar-
antine for observation, was, on the 18th,
sent down to lower quarantine, four
cases of cholera having been found aboard
of her.
C. MEYER ZULIcK, Governor of Arizona
In his annual report, estimates the popula-
tion of the Territory at $4,000, an in.
crease Of nearly $4,000 over the census
estimate of 1880. The aggregate assessed
valuation of the taxable property for the
present year is $26 313, 800, an increase of
nearly &, 000, 600 over 1886.
A CALL for a mass meeting in New York
on the night of the oath to protest against
the execution of the CHICAGO Anarchists